The Delta independent., 1887-04-05
BREVlTIES.
ir. Blaine is on his way west.

Inc Uerman helcnsthS udo tdAcu
recess until April 10.
John G. Sake. the poet, died at Al
bany, New York, last week.
The New York Sun says Hon. James
G. Blaine will sail for Europe in June.
DR.. Ray Palmer, composer of the
hymn. my faith looks up to Thee" is
dead.
Cardinal Manning has written let
ter to Rome in support of the Knights Of
Labor.
The Dauntless arrived at Cork har-
Dor nearly twenty-four hours behind the
Coronet.
Judge Cooley has been elected
Chairman Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Ottawa, Ontario, reports the mercury
ten degree below zero and four Of five feet
Of snow on the ground.
The diffusion process in sugar max
ing is to be thoroughly tested in Louisiana
under Government supervision.
Henry NJ. Stanley says the British
are losing their grip in South Africa, and
the Germans are pushing them aside.
Last week the mints issued $432.3s7
in standard silver dollars against s4s9, ,496
for the corresponding week in last year.
A ship-load of island sugar is to be
sent from San Francisco to New York.
This is the first experiment Of the kind.
The annual report of the Chicago.
Burlington 4 Quincy Railroad shows gross
earnings Of s26, ~, 900 and net earnings of
81, SIS, 900.
Mr.. Parnell considers the Irish Grim
inal Law Amendment bill to be one of the
proposed.
The challenge of the yacht Thistle to
race for the international Cup has been re-
ceived and accepted by the New York
Yacht Club.
All of the Atlantic steamship compa-
nies except the White Star line have decided
not to increase their steerage rates on Scan
dinavian passengers.
Ex-senator Fair, of Nevada, has
sold the South Pacific Coast Railroad to
Mr.. c. p. Huntington, but the terms have
not yet been made public.
The supplementary credits which
were ASKED by the French Ministry have
been rejected, and . government crisis Is
believed to be inevitable.
Marino Leyba, notorious despera-
do was killed while resisting arrest near
Antelope Springs, seventy miles south of
Santa fe- His crimes were many.
According to the Internal Revenue
Bureau there are now twenty-five oleomar-
garine factories In the United States, two
OF which are located in Colorado.
The Italians who were on the
wrecked steamer Scotia complain that they
could get neither food or water sufficient
for their wants during the voyage.
Tho soldiers at Rio Grande City,
Texas, were fired upon By four Mexicans,
and one Corporal Boyer was shot dead.
Three MexicAns have been arrested.
A ferry-boat load Of colorcd laborers
was run down in Cooper river near Oakley,
South Carolina, by a sloop, and four were
drowned. The sloop's captain is under ar
rest
The sealing steamer Eagle has been
lost on the shoals near Funk Island, Bona
Vista Bay, and $50 men perished. The
most Of the men were from St Johns, New
foundland.
Thirteen anarchists were convicted
at Vienna Of an attempt to set fire to the
city and blow up the Imperial palace, and
sentenced to terms ranging from one to
twenty years.
The English Colonial Secretary says
Canada has the right to purchase and direct
the operations Of armed cruisers in Cana
dian waters without the consent Of the In
perial Government
The people Of Chinese town. who
were annoyed by an army Of tramps, ,cosxed
over 500 Of them into temple for . nights
lodging and then set the building on FIRE.
Only forty escaped.
Quarantine has been instituted at FL
raso, Texas, against people, baggage and
freight which may come thfougn Mexico,
on account Of the appearance Of cholera on
the Isthmus Of Panama.
Tho St. Petersburg Nihilists murdered
wealthy merchant Of that city because he
refused to give 10000 roubles towards the
Nihilist cause. Oher capitalists are threat
ened with a similar fate.
The annual tboat race between the
crews Of Oxford and Cambridge Universi-
ties took place on the o8th over the usual
course on the Thames, from Putney to
Mortlake, and was won by Cambridge.
A voodoo doctor in Baldwin county,
Georgia, poisoned family Of eleven per
sons and six Of them are dead. The others
will die. He predicted their deaths be-
cause the father Of the family doubted his
power.
The Pennsylvania road will close its
transfer station at Pittsburg In April and
bill freight through. Nearly ono hundred
men will be thrown out Of employment by
this move, which is attributed 10 the Inter
State Commerce law.
Arrangements have been made for
the sale Of Mr.. Beecher's books, engrav-
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